FX’s new “American Horror Story” is the craziest, trippiest, most disturbing series debuting this fall.

Ostensibly, the show is about a couple (Connie Britton and Dylan McDermott) who relocate to Los Angeles with their teenage daughter to rebuild their life after he cheats and she miscarries. But the house they move into has mysterious ties to past murders, something supernatural is going on in the basement, a kleptomaniac neighbor (Jessica Lange, gloriously chewing all the scenery she can find) keeps walking in unannounced and the housekeeper looks like a conservative matron in her 50s (Frances Conroy) or a sexy strumpet in her 20s (Alexandra Breckenridge) depending on who’s looking at her. Throw in a mysterious burn victim (Denis O’Hare), an emotionally disturbed therapy patient (Evan Peters) and somebody walking around in head-to-toe latex, and it’s easy to see how “Horror Story” defies description.

The pilot episode, premiering at 10 p.m. Wednesday on FX, crams so much story into its hour that it feels like it covers as much ground as some shows do in a whole season, though always posing more questions than it answers.

For Peters, who plays a high school student being treated by McDermott’s therapist character, the constantly roiling plot is part of the “Horror Story” appeal.

“That’s why this show is pretty sweet,” he said, adding that he gets annoyed by shows that glacially draw out their story lines over multiple seasons. “They always draw it out. That’s why I can’t watch TV a lot of times. It’s too boring. I’m kind of ADD like that.”

Locals might recognize Peters from his recurring role on the filmed-in-Wilmington series “One Tree Hill.” He played teen misfit Jack Daniels for six episodes in early 2009.

While he has fond memories of visiting the Cape Fear Serpentarium and going on the Ghost Walk of Old Wilmington, he mostly spent his time off set playing Xbox and reading “Brave New World” in his room at the Riverview Suites in downtown Wilmington.

“I got a little scooter … so I could get to Best Buy,” he said. “It was cheaper than a cab. Best Buy was my friend.”

Peters calls his role on “American Horror Story” intense – a word that can easily be attributed to the show as a whole. The drama is from the minds of Ryan Murphy (“Nip/Tuck,” “Glee”) and Brad Falchuk (“Glee”), who describe the boundary-pushing show as a “psycho-sexual thriller.” Peters said he’s impressed with how Murphy and Falchuk are managing to dole out thrills and chills in weekly installments.

“I was more concerned about how they were going to make it work for a series,” he said. “A horror movie – it starts and it ends in two hours. How are you going to span that out over 13 hours? It’s crazy, but they’ve done it.”

For me, the jury is still out. The show needs to deliver solid answers over the following few episodes if it wants me to think there is a method to the madness. But if your looking for a freaky thriller unlike any show you’ve seen before, “American Horror Story” is worth checking out.

I’ve grown to genuinely love this twisted, odd horror program. If FX wasn’t my favorite channel before, I think with the addition of American Horror Story it can officially be called so now. Between this, Archer, Justified and It’s Always Sunny well, that’s most of my ‘can’t miss’ shows. And I know I’m not the only one. It makes me feel bad for DirecTV customers since they’ll almost certainly be losing FX along with a bunch of other channels due to the contract dispute between Fox and Direct. Makes me glad to be an employee and subscriber of DISH Network where we have a long term contract and don’t have to worry about that sort of thing.